I see many prominent leaders in tech making an active effort to discredit anyone who believe we should invest in preventing an AI takeover as “Doomers”. As someone new to this site, this was the first post I came across when googling “AI Risk lesswrong”. Irregardless of whether it is true I don’t think it’s impact will be a net positive and it may well contribute towards making a doomsday scenario more likely.
I suspect that the majority of people who come across this article when linked from elsewhere will likely only read the TLDR or title.
This posts SEO on google or DDG is not the point I’m looking to make. Like @Said Achmiz I too got https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-risk when googling. I clicked on it then went to the most click-baity post title. (“Die with dignity” nails this pretty well). Hence it being the first post I came across when googling less-wrong.
It’s a very prominent post which I believe makes the doom it predicts more likely by either dissuading people from getting involved in AIS or empowering those who oppose it.
To make a comparison to another field; “climate doomism” has replaced climate denialism in recent years. Why would promoting that we’re doomed be a net positive for AI alignment?